tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10641870.post3383856296748795777..comments2024-02-13T23:05:30.411+00:00Comments on An accidental blog: Christian workstevebishophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01485378930192829175noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10641870.post-69497593827181245212007-09-04T20:31:00.000+01:002007-09-04T20:31:00.000+01:00Hi Gregory,I would whole-heartedly agree that eccl...Hi Gregory,<BR/>I would whole-heartedly agree that ecclesiasticism is wrong. <BR/><BR/>And as regards Labour Day - we don't have it here, but if there's a bandwagon, I'll join it!<BR/><BR/>Cheers,<BR/><BR/>Stevestevebishophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01485378930192829175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10641870.post-13918860896761432632007-09-04T00:49:00.000+01:002007-09-04T00:49:00.000+01:00"...the pictures could not have been shown in chur..."...<I>the pictures could not have been shown in churches without bringing Christianity into contempt</I>"<BR/><BR/>Of course, this is the case even with the best films. Church, properly speaking, is not the sphere for film --any more than it is for political advocacy, marital sex, splitting atoms, or a host of other legitimate activities.<BR/><BR/>I've decided that I can't let comments like this go by anymore. Too may fellow churchman who should be allies in our neocalvinist cultural vision have been getting the wrong idea that we somehow support a kind of ecclesiasticism. They have gotten the repeated impression that what we mean by "redeeming" or "transforming" society/culture is for the church to take over everything (or worse, bring "all of life" into the church).<BR/><BR/>I suppose Sayers only means to refer to any building any gathering of Christians might use for any purpose, and otherwise her thought is good as far as it goes. But I've decided I have to scrupulously distinguish what I mean by "church" from now on, and insert caveats in such quotations...<BR/>in my own writing, I mean. But I thought you wouldn't mind me commenting here. It's been on my mind lately.<BR/><BR/>P.S. it's not Labor Day in the UK too, is it?Baushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15081376115291852909noreply@blogger.com